Connor Towne O’Neill grapples with America’s legacy of white supremacy
…we can. We’ve always had the capacity to do it, and we’ve always had people trying to teach us, pleading with us to be accountable to that fuller version of…
Greetings from New Nashville considers the city’s transformation and its future
…was the tipping point from “mixed” district to hipster paradise. For residents of Nolensville Road, the city’s most ethnically diverse area, the opening of Casa Azafrán in 2012 was a…
Michael Ian Black makes the case for a new masculinity in A Better Man
…the ideal is always unattainable. What we can do, though, is rethink traditional gender roles so that we inch closer to a world in which men feel free to be…
A new memoir by Lawrence Wells pulls back the curtain on a Southern literary community
…in Oxford, including William Styron, Alex Haley, Jim Harrison, George Plimpton, James Dickey, and David Halberstam. “All writers begin as book fiends, eggheads, and smart-alecks,” Wells writes of Barry Hannah….
In M.O. Walsh’s endearing new novel, a strange machine disrupts life in a small Southern town
…other, with a historic square, shops “that hang flowering baskets,” a Catholic high school, an upcoming festival, and a grocery store. In this grocery appears, almost as if by magic,…
After three decades in children’s books, acclaimed author-illustrator David Wiesner is still eager to innovate
If you think making Caldecott history — being one of only two artists to win the Caldecott Medal three times, in addition to winning three Caldecott Honors — would have…
